{"id":21622,"date":"2025-10-26T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21622\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:05:08","slug":"alcorn-state-cross-country-set-for-swac-championships-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21622\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcorn State Cross Country Set for SWAC Championships in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     Lorman, Miss. \u2013\u00a0The Alcorn State men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country teams are set to compete in the 2025 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Cross Country Championships on Monday, October 27, at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s 5K race will begin at 7:00 a.m. CST, followed by the men&#8217;s 8K event at 8:00 a.m. CST. The championships will feature all 12 SWAC member institutions competing for both team and individual titles.<\/p>\n<p>Under the direction of head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/alcornsports.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/coaches\/alonzo-banks\/643\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"643\" target=\"_blank\">Alonzo Banks<\/a>, the Braves and Lady Braves enter the meet with solid performances throughout the season, highlighted by personal bests and strong finishes across multiple invitationals. Alcorn State&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/alcornsports.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/silvia-jepkorir\/5228\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5228\" target=\"_blank\">Silvia Jepkorir<\/a> has led the way for the women&#8217;s squad, consistently finishing among the top runners in her events, while <a href=\"https:\/\/alcornsports.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/bryan-alvarez\/5230\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5230\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Alvarez<\/a> has emerged as a top performer on the men&#8217;s side with steady improvement throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The team looks to carry that momentum into championship competition on Monday morning. Fans can follow live results and updates through SWAC&#8217;s official championship coverage at SWAC.org.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE BRAVES<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor complete coverage of\u00a0Alcorn\u00a0State Athletics news, please follow the Braves on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BravesSports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BravesSports<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alcornsports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AlcornSports<\/a>) and YouTube (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjfOB-pFKtEWY82qS_cMaQA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcorn State Sports<\/a>)\u00a0or visit the official home of the\u00a0Alcorn\u00a0State Athletics at (alcornsports.com).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; Lorman, Miss. \u2013\u00a0The Alcorn State men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country teams are set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-21622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}